WMakerConf:
A Configuration Utility for Window Maker

Herbert P. Fortes Neto has taken over as the maintainer of
WMakerConf. The new web site is at
Sourceforge.net, with project page
here. There is a new release available there, version
2.12.

The current web page here will be kept up for a while
during the transition. Many thanks to Herbert for taking
over the project!

WMakerConf (short for Window Maker Configurator) is a
configuration utility for the Window Maker window manager.
Unlike the WPrefs.app program included with Window Maker,
WMakerConf uses the GTK+
graphics library. The current version of WMakerConf, 2.11, is
linked against version 2.4 or greater of GTK+. It works well
with WindowMaker 0.90. (It is no longer completely compatible
with WindowMaker 0.80 - for that, download one of the older
versions from below). In addition to GTK+, to compile you will
also need libWINGs, libWUtil, and libwraster, all of which are
available from development packages of Window Maker.

The original creator of WMakerConf is Ullrich Hafner, who
authored versions through 2.9.
As of version 2.9.1, WMakerConf has been adopted by
Kevin McCarty. Thanks are due to numerous others;
please see the AUTHORS and NLS-TEAM files in the source
distribution for details. WMakerConf is free software,
being licensed for distribution under the GNU General Public
License.

Known Bugs

There may still be some issues left over from the port
to GTK+ 2, but I think I've fixed most of them. WMakerConf
also does not yet support all WindowMaker attributes;
notably, support for changing cursor icons is missing.

Screenshots

News

2.11

Version 2.11 is the long-awaited final port of WMakerConf to
GTK+ 2. It also now understands the new font name format
used by Window Maker 0.90. As a result, it is probably
somewhat incompatible with Window Maker 0.80.

2.10 (experimental code!)

I have prepared a prototype version of WMakerConf, version
2.10, that links against GTK+ 2.x. Source code can be
downloaded here. This is experimental code. There are more
problems with it than I have time or energy to fix. Anyone
who wants to take over maintenance of WMakerConf is welcome
to do so; a list of issues to be fixed can be found in the
TODO file in the
source code.

2.9.2

A few more bugs were fixed in the handling of workspace
specific backgrounds (the WindowMaker "WorkspaceSpecificBack"
property). Panels are now sorted alphabetically instead
of at (quasi-)random. The default web browser may be selected
at compile time.

2.9.1

Version 2.9.1 of WMakerConf is the first release in a couple
years. Not to be too ambitious, this is largely a bug-fix
release for 2.9. Changes include fixes of various crashes and
other minor bugs, and a few new or updated translations.

All versions here are compatible only with version 0.80.0 or
higher of Window Maker.

Translators: you may download just the
WMakerConf
or data
POT files, although you should probably check the tar.gz's
linked above to make sure that an updated translation
does not already exist for your language. Please submit
translations
here.